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Taliban seize district headquarters in eastern Afghanistan

The Taliban have been waging offensives across Afghanistan in recent months, capturing two districts in the north.

27 Aug 2016 3:38 PM IST

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At least 16 dead in Moscow warehouse fire: Ministry

The victims were likely migrants from former Soviet republics and that the warehouse belonged to a local printing...

27 Aug 2016 3:37 PM IST

Pakistan says will not seek extradition of MQM chief Altaf Hussain

Scotland Yard is also currently conducting its own investigation on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder.

27 Aug 2016 1:59 PM IST

Pak army committing 'tsunami of rights violations', says Baloch leader...

He also said he was indebted to Prime Minister Modi for speaking about Baloch people on Independence Day.

27 Aug 2016 1:04 PM IST

A third man, Suliman Mohamed, 23, faces a seven-year term for conspiring with the twins in joining ISIS. (Photo: File/AFP)

Canadian twins plead guilty to terrorism, face jail

The brothers, Ashton and Carlos Larmond, both 25, received sentences of 17 and seven years, respectively.

27 Aug 2016 1:03 PM IST

French resorts were defiant after a ban on the burkini in a Riviera town was overturned. (Photo: File/AFP)

French resorts refuse to allow burkinis despite top court overturning...

The suspension of the ban on the Islamic swimsuit has begun a debate about women's rights and the French state's...

27 Aug 2016 12:04 PM IST

US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar (Photo: PTI)

Ashton Carter, Manohar Parrikar to meet at Pentagon on Monday

The India-US Defence partnership has been the most ambitious one over the past several years.

27 Aug 2016 12:03 PM IST

Twenty-two people, including 17 foreigners, were killed in the brutal late-night attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery. (Photo: PT

Dhaka cafe attack mastermind killed in encounter, say police

The 'mastermind', Canadian-Bangladeshi Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and 2 others were killed in an encounter near Dhaka.

27 Aug 2016 11:20 AM IST

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (Photo: PTI)

Nicolas Sarkozy tells comeback rally he would ban burkini across...

His popularity rose particularly after Islamist attacks on a Bastille Day crowd in Nice and on a priest in Normandy.

27 Aug 2016 10:45 AM IST

Brexit opponents maintain that since EU referendum result is advisory, it should be passed by a vote in the House of Commons.

UK's May heads for Brexit negotiations without vote by MPs: reports

The UK voted to leave the EU on June 23, but May had earlier said that she will not invoke Article 50, the two-year...

27 Aug 2016 10:42 AM IST

African migrants go to Italian quake zone to help survivors

Using shovels, hoes and rakes, the group of about 20 migrants helped to prepare the ground for tents.

27 Aug 2016 10:23 AM IST

First evacuees leave besieged Damascus suburb Daraya

Peeping from the window of one the vehicles was a small child no older than four or five, too young to remember life...

27 Aug 2016 10:22 AM IST